Birmingham City 5-0 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006
Result
Birmingham City 5-0 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Birmingham City 5-0 Portsmouth: match report
Birmingham City beat Portsmouth 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 January 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.
Jiri Jarosik opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Jiri Jarosik (5'), Jermaine Pennant (38'), Edward Upson (55'), Mikael Forssell (89', penalty) and David Dunn (90'). Portsmouth did not score.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 19th on 16 points from 21 and Portsmouth 18th on 17 points from 22. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 34 points, and Portsmouth 17th with 38.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 3 draws and 1 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-W-L-D-L and Portsmouth's L-L-W-L-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Jiri Jarosik
- 38'Goal · Jermaine Pennant
- 55'Goal · Edward Upson
- 71'Yellow card · Damien Johnson
- 76'Yellow card · Andy Griffin
- 89'Penalty goal · Mikael Forssell
- 90'Goal · David Dunn
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Kenny Cunningham, Matthew Upson, Mario Melchiot, Mustafa Izzet, Jermaine Pennant, Stan Lazaridis, Emile Heskey, Chris Sutton, Jirí Jarosík, Damien Johnson
Portsmouth expected line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Richard Hughes, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham